Editing the style sheet

…I've written a number of tutorials for the Genesis framework on my website and…answered many questions in the StudioPress forums.…One question I've heard over and over is, where do I put this code?…In this lesson, we'll look at how to properly add style customizations to…your child theme, so that you get the results you want without any surprises.…Whether you're customizing an existing Genesis child theme or…building your own, one thing is certain, it's got to have a style sheet.…The style sheet lives in the root directory of your child theme, and…is called style.css.…

This file is what makes your theme look good.…In there, you'll find font specifications, layout widths,…colors, the entire wardrobe for your site's style.…Let's take a quick tour of the style sheet for the Genesis sample theme.…At the top, we've got the basic information, like the theme name,…a description, who wrote it and what the version number is.…Then, we've got the table of contents and…organized sections that follow along in the same order of the table of contents.…

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8/22/2014

Genesis allows you to create elegant, secure, and keyword-rich child themes for your WordPress sites. In this course, Carrie Dils takes apart the framework so you can understand the structure and start customizing your own child themes with Genesis. Learn how to set up a development environment and use action hooks to change not only how your theme looks, but also how it behaves. Carrie also shows how to make some of her clients' most-requested theme customizations.